While I'm a big fan of Ultima I don't really get how it applies to a discussion about physical game media as an optional means of copyright protection. As we said before, if you don't want to use physical media then you get the digital download version. If you have to have physical media (just to look at? I don't know) then buy both versions.

PS some of the statements about publishers in that thread make me very angry with their inaccuracy, but I guess that's their own fault for not employing people to spin out the correct information to 'passionate' gamers. Not that they can afford that, but hey.